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H 1ban^book of llnfoimation 

issuc& in bonor of tbe 

IDisiting Zcacbcxe ot JEnglanD, Scotland, 
IfrelanO anO Males. 



1907 




STATUE OF ST. LOUIS, WORLD'S FAIR. 



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INVITATION . 



TO THE TEACHERS 

FROM ENGLAND, 

SCOTLAND, 

IRELAND AND 

WALES, 

The Citizens and Teachers 

OF ST. LOUIS 

extend a cordial INVITATION 

TO VISIT THEIR CITY AND 

ACCEPT THEIR HOSPITALITY. 




HEADQUARTERS 

FOR THE 

European Visitors 

Board of Education Building, 

Northwest Corner Ninth and Locust 
Streets. 

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The offices of the Board of Educa- 
tion are open from 8:30 A. M. to 5:30 
P. M. 

On Saturdays, from 8:30 A. M. to 
1:00 P. M. 

TELEPHONES: Bell, Main 3053; 

Kinloch, Central 3720. 



BOARD OP EDUCATION BUILDING. 



COMMITTEE OF RECEPTION. 
W. S. CHAPLIN, Chairman, 

Chancellor Washington University. 
WALTER H. WILCOX, Secretary, 

Principal Jackson School. 
Prof. C. M. WOODWARD, 

Member of the Board of Education. 
Dr. WM. TAUSSIG, 

Member of the Board of Education. 
F. LOUIS SOLDAN, 

Superintendent of Instruction. 
BEN BLEWETT, 

Ass't Superintendent of Instruction. 
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THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS. 

St. Louis is the fourth city of the 
Its Importance. United States in regard to population. 
It is located on the west bank of the 
Mississippi, about twenty miles south of the mouth of the Mis- 
souri River. It is the largest city and railroad center in the 
Mississippi Valley and important both as a manufacturing city 
and as a distributing market for products representing the entire 
country. Its location makes it a point of exchange between man- 
ufactured products and the products of the soil. It has a central 
position in regard to the two great agricultural States of Missouri 
and Illinois. Missouri is rich in minerals, especially lead and zinc. 
There are large coal beds in the vicinity of St. Louis. 

School Statistics. 
Number of Inhabitants Estimated at 686,000 

Popu- Census of 1900 575,000 

lation. Number of Children in Public Schools 87,074 
Number of Teachers Employed . . 2,090 
Number of School Buildings ... 119 

The modern school building contains, as a rule, twenty rooms 
and a large room for the kindergarten. It accommodates about 
twelve hundred children. 

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TKATMAN HIGH SCHOOL. 



The 

Educational Growth 

of St. Louis* 



St. Louis has always been a 
center of progressive education. 
Several of the men that she em- 
ployed in her schools have subse- 
quently achieved a national repu- 
tation. Dr. W. T. Harris, the foremost American educator, and 
until lately National Commissioner of Education, began his pub- 
lic career as Superintendent of Public Schools in St. Louis. 

Many important movements that affected education all over 
the country originated here. The first kindergarten connected 
with public schools was founded in St. Louis nearly thirty years 
ago by Miss Susan Blow. The first Manual Training School 

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in the country was founded here over twenty-five ^ears ago by 
Professor C. M. Woodward. 

The last ten years mark a new epoch of 
Pro§:ress educational progress in St. Louis. A new 

in the Last charter was then enacted b}^ which politi- 

Ten Years* cal influences are eliminated in the election 
of a Board of Education, and the executive 
work in the conduct of the schools is placed in the hands of ex- 
perts. School buildings of superior merit have been erected. 
Large pieces of land for school sites with abundance of play- 
grounds have been purchased. Over one-third of all the school 
rooms in the citv have been reconstructed or rebuilt. Two high 
schools with manual training equipment have been erected at a 
cost of a million dollars. Manual training, sewing and cooking 
have been introduced inlo the elementary schools. School books 
and stationery are supplied at public expense. Large school libra- 
ries have been purchased for every school so that no child grows 
up without acquaintance with the treasures of literature. Photo- 
graphs and casts of the masterpieces of the world are displayed 
in almost every school. Modern rational methods of instruction 
have been introduced. The work of the evening schools has been 
systematized and improved. A compulsory education law has 
been adopted. Teachers' salaries have been raised. A system 
of paying annuities to superannuated teachers has begun. 

These are some of the educational achievements of St. Louis 
during the last ten vears. 

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ADMINISTRATION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

The State of Missouri, through ics 
Relation between legislative assembly, has absolute au- 
State and City. thority over all the schools of the 

State. The Board of Education of 
St. Louis derives its power from a charter by which the legisla- 
ture grants to the cit\' home rule in school affairs. 

The principal part of the income of 

Income. the schools is derived, not from State 

funds, but from local taxation. The 

rio-ht of the Board to tax is limited by the State Constitution to 

sixty cents on the hundred dollars. 

The expenditures for school puposes during the school year 
1905-1906 were over three million dollars. 

The Board of Education is com- 
The Board of posed of twelve members, elected, 

Education. not by districts, but by the whole 

city. The members serve without 
remuneration and have a tenure of six years. The regular meet- 
ings of the Board take place once a month. 

There are four administrative de- 
Chiefs of partments: Instruction, Building, 
Departments. Supplies and Finance. At the head 
of each of these departments is a 
salaried officer to whom the charter grants extensive powers. 
These officers are appointed by the Board for a period of four 
years. In the appointments of teachers and in the adoption of text- 
books and apparatus, the recommendation of the Superintendent 

of Instruction and affirmative action by the Board are required. 

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ORGANIZATION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

Separate schools are maintained for white 
Kinds of and colored children. 

Schools. The elementary schools are called District 

Schools. Each District School has, as a rule, 
a kindergarten. The secondary schools are called High Schools, 
and have a course of instruction extending over four years. The 
Teachers College receives students that have finished the High 
School work. Its course covers two years. 

During the winter, Evening District Schools and Evening High 
Schools are opened for 3'ouths from fourteen to twenty years of 
age. 

Principals. The principal of a school has 
Teachers supervision of the teachers and the general 
and management of the school. He is not required 

Pupils. to teach but is held responsible for the teach- 

ing in all the rooms. 

Teachers. Teachers of the city have, as a rule, received their 

training in the High School and in the Teachers College or 

Normal School. Specially selected teachers are placed in charge 

of the primarv rooms. 

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ENTKANCE TO CLAY SCHOOL. 

finisli the course of elementary instr 
This flexible S) stem of promotion is 
organization of the chiss rooms. 

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District Schools. 

Pupils. Children e u t e r 
the elementary 
schools at the age of six. 
They remain in kindergarten 
one year and then are pro- 
moted to the primary room 
where instruction in reading, 
etc., begins. The course of 
the elementary school covers 
eight years. 

At the close of the District 
course, the pupil may enter 
the High School on the cer- 
tificate of the principni, with- 
out additional examination. 
A Hexible 
Promotion s y s t e m of 
of Pupils, promotion is 
in use which 
enables a talented child to 
uction in seven years or less, 
made possible by the peculiar 



In the District Schools, the average 

Ofgfanization number of children per room is about 

of Classes* fifty. As a rule, the pupils of each room 

are divided into two classes of different 

degrees of advancement. While one class is reciting, the other 

division studies the lesson for the next recitation. 

This plan is preferred because it encourages self-reliance and 
individual thinking. It leaves children a little more intellectual 
freedom and gives them a little more self-dependence than if they 
were always keeping step mentally wMth the teacher. 

By having two or more divisions in each room, the number 
of classes becomes large and the interval between the classes 
small, representing in some cases but ten weeks' work. A child 
wiio fails in his studies and is placed in the class below loses 
but a few weeks, and may soon make up his loss. 

Promotions in the District Schools take place once in ten 
^veeks. Talented pupils can be promoted at any time since there 
are two classes of different grade in each room. It is often 
possible to promote children without a change in rooms. 

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COURSES OF STUDY. 

The course of study in the District 
District Schools* Schools includes Reading, Writing, 
Arithmetic, Geography, History of the 
United States, Singing, Physical Culture, Elementary Instruction 
in Science and Conversational Lessons in Morals. Drawing is 
systematically taught and includes elementary color work and the 
making and decorating of objects, from paper and similar mate- 
rial. The recitations last from twenty to thirty minutes according 
to grade. The school hours are from 9 : 00 to 12 : 00 and from 
1 : 10 to o : 25 with intermissions. 

Printed copies of the courses of study may be obtained by 
addressing the Superintendent of Instruction. 

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MANUAL TRAINING. 

District Schools. Every boy in the seventh and eighth grades 
of the elementary course receives instruction in carpentry work. 
He makes his own working designs. The girls are taught 
the household arts, sewing, mending, etc., the making of plain 
garments, and cooking. The cooking lessons include marketing, 
the elements of the chemistry of food and physiology of 
nutrition, the preparing of meals for the sick, and lessons in good 
table manners. 

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COURSE OF STUDY -HIGH SCHOOLS. 




The course of study in 
the High Schools includes 
instruction in ancient and 
modern languages, mathe- 
matics, science, histoiy and 
art. The study of the 
English Language and Lit- 
erature forms an important 
part of every pupil's work. 
The laboratories and manual 
training shops are among 
the best in the countrj^ 
Each school is decorated 
with choice copies of good 
art works. 

The studies are arranged 
in courses, from which the 
pupil must choose one when 
he enters school. The 
studies in each course are 
prescribed and not subject to choice. ' Some of the courses 
offered to the student are : Preparatory Courses for College, 
Course preparing tor Commercial Life, Courses with special 
stress on Drawing and Art, Manual Training Course, etc. Each 
pupil is required to pursue four or five studies at a time. The 
recitations are about fort}^ minutes in length. Promotions are 

made semi-annually. The school session lasts from 9 : 00 to 2 : 30 

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COOKING, DISTRICT SCHOOLS. 



with an intermission of half an hour at noon. Substantial warm 
luncheons are served to the students prepared by employees of the 
Board of Education and sold at cost. 

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MANUAL TRAINING IN HIGH SCHOOLS. 

The McKinley and Yeatman High Schools and the Sumner High 
School for colored youths offer to the boys a Manual Training 
Course of four years and have well equipped shops for wood 
work, forging and machine work. 

For the girls, a four years' course of Instruction in the Domes- 
tic Arts and Science is provided which includes the sewing, fit- 
ting and designing of garments, and the art study of costume and 
color in connection therewith, millinery, cooking, including the 
chemistry and physiology of food, marketing, the work in the 
household, including the laundry work, the giving of first help in 
accidents, nursing the sick, etc. 

The Central High School does not teach Manual Training. 

Enrollment in the high schools, 4,487 pupils. 

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THE KINDERGARTENS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

St. Louis was the lirst city to add kindergartens to the Public 
School system. The first Public School kindergarten was opened 
in St. Louis by Miss Susan Blow, when Dr. W. T. Harris was 
superintendent of the Public Schools of St. Louis. The graduates 
of the St. Louis Training School for Kindergarten Teachers be- 
came the pioneers of the kindergartens in the United States. 

In every large District School there is a room specially built 
for kindergarten work. The children in these kindergartens are 
from six to seven years of age. 

Tiie aim of the kindergarten education is to promote the healthy 
growth of character, intelligence and physical strength. It is a 
preparation for the regular school work, but does not impart 
instruction in the regular studies of the school. 

The developing influence of the kindergarten is exercised 
through games which give a glimpse at the relations and vocations 
of life ; through songs which enlarge the vocabulary and form a 
kind of introduction to literature ; through occupations and hand- 
work which train hand, eye and mind, and which cultivate the 
sense of form and color. Good taste and a love of the beautiful 
are inculcated. The children are introduced to the elementary 
facts of science by watching the growth of plants. 

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TEACHERS COLLEGE 



The purpose of the Teachers College is the training of teachers 
for the public schools of St. Louis. Candidates for admission 
must have finished a course of four years in a secondary school 
(High School) or possess equivalent preparation. 

The Teachers College was established in 1903. It is located in a 

new building finished in 1905. The 
building contains well equipped reci- 
tation rooms, a library, laboratories, 
an assembly room, a g3'mnasium, 
and a lunch room. There is a large 
room with seats arranged in tiers ; 
in the center there is desk space 
to seat a class of children. The 
young teachers here observe how 
classes brought here from various 
schools are taught. 

The course of study of the Teach- 
ers College includes the Science of 
Education and its Practice, and His- 
tory, Psychology, the Study of Chil- 
r j:: ^^^1 dren, Methods of Instruction, etc. 

M '■ ^Sm After the student has finished the 

course she is sent for a year, as an 
ENTKANCE TO TEACHERS COLLEGE, apprcuticc, to somc school. A di- 
ploma is aw^arded to students suc- 
cessful in their studies as well as in their practical work. 

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PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS. 
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. 

Washington University, of which Mr. W. S. ChapHn is Chan- 
cellor, is an institution with all the modern equipments of Univer- 
sity work. 

It is located in the western part of the city where it covers 
extensive and beautifully located grounds. It combines 

1. A College of Letters and Philosophy, University Campus. 

2. A School of Engineering and Architecture, University 
Campus. 

3. A Law School, 29th and Locust Streets. 

4. A School of Fine Arts, 19th and Locust Streets. 

5. A School of Botany, Missouri Botanical Garden. 

6. A Medical School, 1806 Locust Street. 

7. A Dental School, 27th and Locust Streets. 

Three Subordinate Schools. 

1. Smith Academy (Classical) for Boys, Von Versen and 
Windermere Way. 

2. Mary Institute for Girls, Lake and McPherson Avenues. 

3. The Manual Training School, Von Versen Avenue near 
Union Avenue. 

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WASHINGTON UNIVBRSITT GATEWAY. 



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The picture sbows 
the Grand Tower 
Entrance to the First 
Quadrangle of the 
University. Under 
the Arch is a glimpse 
of the Library, the 
building in which 
the Jubilee Presents 
to Queen Victoria 
were exhibited two 
years ago. On the 
front area of the 
campus, the " Brit- 
ish P^avilion " still 
>tands, in the midst 
of the well preserved 
"English Garden." 
The University 
Buildings are en- 
tirely new and con- 
tain lecture and class 
rooms, laboratories, 
library, gymnasium 
building on campus, 
and dormitories. 



THE MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL OF WASHING- 
TON UNIVERSITY. 

Tlie Manual Training School is a secondary school for boys. 
It was the first school of its kind in the country, and its founder, 




MANUAL TKAINING SCHOOL. 



Prof. C. M. Woodward, is still in charge. It was organized in 
1879 and opened on another site in 1880. This pioneer school 
has a world-wide reputation, and has served as a model for 
similar high grade schools in many lands. It is not a trade 
school, but is for general education, combining mental with man- 
ual training and culture. 

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DENOMINATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. 

ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY. ; 

There are many excellent denominational schools in St. Louis. 
Among the Roman Catholic Schools, two institutions are 
speciall}' prominent. 

The St. Louis University was established 
St. Louis in 1829 and has educated several genera- 

University, tions of young men. It has the following 
departments: Academy, College, Commer- 
cial, Philosophy, Medicine, Science and Divinity. The library of 
St. Louis University contains over 43,000 volumes. 
It is located on Grand avenue opposite Pine Street. 

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY. 

The Christian Brothers Academy is an institution for the edu- 
cation of boys and 3'oung men, and enjoys an excellent reputa- 
tion as an educational institution. It has fine and commodious 
buildings which have a commanding location at one of the highest 
points in the city. It can be reached bj^ the Easton avenue cars 

Names and Location of Some Parochial Schools. 
St. Alphonsus, 1122 North Grand Avenue. 
St. Leo, 25th and Mullanphy Streets. 
Holy Name, Grand Avenue near 20th Street. 

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FOR THE INFORMATION OF VISITORS. 

Visitors should notify Chancellor 
Notice of AffivaL W. S. Chaplin, or Prof. C. M. Wood- 
ward, care of Washington University, 
or Mr. Ben Blewett, Assistant Superintendent of Public Schools, 
of the day and hour of their arrival in St. Louis, and mention 
the railroad line b}' which they propose to come. 

The headquarters of the Reception 
Headquarters. Committee is in the Board of Educa- 

tion Building, Office of the Superin- 
tendent of Instruction, Ninth and Locust streets. Telephones, 
Bell, Main 3053 ; Kinloch, Central 3720. 

Visitors will be the guests of the 
Hotels* Committee during the time of their 

visit of inspection. Hotel accommo- 
dations will be provided for them and they will be informed of 
their location in advance if notice of their visit is sent in time. 

Visitors will be provided with 
School Visits. guides to the various schools which 

they wish to visit. 

Lists of schools with information 

List of Schools. concerning the car hues by which 

they are reached can be obtained at 

headquarters. Printed courses of stud}^ and the Annual Report 

of the Board of Education, with detailed information about the 

Public School system can be procured there free of charge. 

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SOME POINTS OF INTEREST TO TEACHERS. 

Ill the following list the points of interest located near each 
other are grouped together: — 

1. (a) Board of Education Building, Ninth and Locust 

streets — Session Room of the Board with pictures of 
new buildings ; offices of various departments, Supph^ 
Room — Architects' Drafting Room. In the same build- 
ing: Public Library about 200,000 volumes. 

(b) Jefferson School, Ninth and Wash streets — mostly 
Jewish children — 1,300 pupils — Manual Training. 

(c) Patrick Henry School, Tenth and O'Fallon streets — 
just opened — cost about $300,000.00 — nearly 1,400 
children — bath rooms. 

(d) St. Louis School of Fine Arts, Nineteenth and Locust 
streets, maintained by Washington University. 

(e) Dumas (colored) School — Look at the Kindergarten. 
Notice the singing in all the grades. 

2. (a) Washington Universit}', Lindell avenue and Skinker 

Road. It can be reached b}^ the McPherson car on 
Olive street ; at end of line transfer to Clayton car, 
which passes the University. 
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(b) Manual Training School and Smitli Academy, a prepara- 
tory school for boys, both maintained by Washington 
University (Von Versen avenue west of Union avenue). 

(c) Eugene Field School (Olive st. and Taylor ave.) — a 
Public District School, located in a purely American 
district — 1,000 children — 18 rooms and a kindergarten. 

3. (a) Yeatman High (Garrison and Natural Bridge Road) — 

Manual Training Shops, Domestic Science Instruction, 
Kitchen, Sewing Rooms, etc. — Chemical, Physical and 
Biological Laboratories — Art Rooms — Rooms for Com- 
mercial Training — Gymnasium — Baths — Note the work 
in Drawing and the connection between Art Work and 
Manual Training — Visit the public kitchen and lunch- 
eon room during recess and see how 600 pupils are 
served — Look at the assembly room and the mural 
paintings of Mr. James E. Yeatman. 

(b) The David Farragut School (Sullivan and Warne ave- 
nues) about eight blocks west of the Yeatman High 
School — Opened in September, 1906 — Representing 
the most modern type of school building — Notice the 
school gymnasium. 

4. (a) The Sumner High School (Fifteenth and Walnut 

Streets). A secondary school for colored students — 
Visit the workshop and the Art Room — Notice the 
" portable building" — About fifty of these buildings 
are used in various parts of the city to take care of the 
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overflow of pupils during the time necessary to erect a 
new building. 

(b) L'Ouverture School (2612 Papin Street). A school for 
colored children — Visit the Ivindergarteu. 

5. (a) The Teachers College (Theresa and Park avenues). 
Laboratory — Library — Gymnasium — " Critic " 
Room — See the World's Fair Exhibit of St. Louis 
stored in the basement. 

(b) The Educational Museum (Theresa and Eads avenues). 
One of the most important additions to the Public School 
System in the last two years — It is a " traveling " col- 
lection of objects to be used in all the schools for in- 
struction in Natural History, Physics, Science and 
Geography — Large collections of lantern slides and 
stereoscopic views — A delivery wagon takes these col- 
lections to any school making a requisition for the 
same — Pedagogical Library for teachers — Ask for a 
catalogue of the collections. 

(c) The Wyman School (Theresa and Eads avenues). 
Listen to a recitation in the primary grade. 

(d) Eads Avenue Training Center (Eads and Texas avenues). 
A small building used as a center to which classes from 
the surrounding District Schools are sent to receive in- 
struction in Manual Training and Domestic Science. 

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6. (a) The McKinley High School (Missouri and Russell 

avenues) Manual Training Shops, Domestic Science In- 
struction, Kitchen, Sewing Rooms, etc. — Chemical, 
Physical and Biological Laboratories — Art Rooms — 
Rooms for Commercial Training — Gymnasium — 
Baths — Visit the public kitchen and luncheon room 
during recess and see how 800 pupils are served. 

(b) The Franz Sigel School (Allen and McNair avenues). 
Opened in September, 190G — Representing the most 
modern type of school building — Notice the school 
gymnasium. 

7. (a) Monroe School (Broadway and Winnebago streets). A 

building of 18 rooms and kindergarten — 1,000 children. 
Located in a part of the city in which a large number of 
German families live. 

(b) Shepard School (Wisconsin and Potomac streets). A 
new school opened in 1906 — Notice the gymnasium — 
22 rooms and kindergarten — 1,200 children. 
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FA.KRAGUT SCHOOL. 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 




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